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Letter written by Iosif Shlifer from Kharkov requesting assistance in the literary adaptation of the memoirs of a Jewish citizen of the Soviet Union who lived in Germany during World War II as a civilian POW and afterwards as an ethnic German; in his reply Ehrenburg explains that he is busy and he recommends that Shlifer turn to Aron Vergelis, the editor of the "Sovyetish Geymland" newspaper

File Number : 103

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Documentation from the trial of Otto Zeyel, commander of a militia unit of local ethnic Germans, charged with collaboration with the German occupation authority, persecution of the local population and murder of the Jews, in Kolosovo, 1941-1944 Investigation file of the MGB counter-espionage department, the Ministry of State Security of Moldavia, which was conducted in Kotlas and Kishinev, 1945-1947: - Arrest warrant, investigation and search against Otto Zeyel, commander of a militia unit of local ethnic Germans, charged with persecution of the local population. The warrant was issued in Kishinev, 10...

File Number : 4

Type of Material : Detention Order, List of Murdered Persons, List of Collaborators, Investigation Reports, Record of Murdered Persons, Legal Documentation, Protocol, Indictment, Sentence

Language : Russian

Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march Family background; Shabbat and religious holidays; youth movements and synagogues in the community; assistance to the needy; Bnei Akiva activities; neighborly relations with the Volksdeutsche. German occupation of Lodz; being snatched up for forced labor; yellow badge; desecration of the synagogue; sealing of the ghetto, late April 1940; murder of his brother in Poznan; ghetto life; Judenrat actvities and Rumkowski; labor in the Resort...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen regarding the SSPF Lublin, forced labor camps in the General Government, the extermination camp Belzec, the liquidations of ghettos in the General Government, the Warsaw Ghetto, the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deportation of Jews to the extermination camp...

File Number : 110

Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Official Documentation

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 81, 12/09/1941 Part 1 - Political Events: Finding kindling material in the warehouses of the Schienau Company and at the railroad station in Elbing; sabotage of railroad tracks near Treppau; confiscation of radios from the population in Norway; escape of inmates from the POW camps in Sokolow; Sidlce and other locations in Poland; assassination (attempt?) against a German Naval officer in Paris;...

File Number : 164.81

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

List of residents who were evacuated to Belovo, prepared in 1942

File Number : JM/23547

Type of Material : List of Evacuated Persons

Language : Russian

List of residents who were evacuated to Prokopyevsk, prepared in 1942

File Number : JM/23547

Type of Material : List of Evacuated Persons

Language : Russian

List of residents who were evacuated to Tomsk, prepared in 1942

File Number : JM/23540

Type of Material : List of Evacuated Persons

Language : Russian

Testimony of Sheina Arkin, born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilkaviskis and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Sheina Arkin, born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilkaviskis and in hiding in a village Life before the war; from a religious family; attends a Jewish school where the language of instruction is Hebrew; her father is a merchant. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of Jewish factories; deportation of Jews to Siberia; German occupation, June 1941; air-raids on Vilkaviskis; burning of houses and the ancient synagogue; deportation in the direction of Kaunas on foot; deportation of Jews, including her parents, to a military camp and murder of the Jews;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of residents who were evacuated to the Yashkino District, prepared in 1942

File Number : JM/23542

Type of Material : List of Evacuated Persons

Language : Russian

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